Barnaby Joyce becomes a 'Yes' man on the TODAY Show

Deputy Prime Minister and Nationals leader has fired a series of simple "yes" responses back at TODAY Show host Lisa Wilkinson during an interview, after she urged him to be more direct.

The amusing exchange happened after Wilkinson asked Mr Joyce if he was impressed with Malcolm Turnbull's performance as prime minister.

"Look, it's the hardest job in the book, to be prime minister during an election campaign, and I think that Malcolm is definitely the leader that the nation leads - we have a choice between Bill Shorten or Malcolm Turnbull and I think it's not stretching it too far to say in uncertain economic times, by reason of Brexit, that we need a person who has at least proved himself in his own life as having strong economic credentials, strong management capacity, so I think it's better for the nation," Mr Joyce said.

"My personal views, I get along well with Malcolm, but my personal views are irrelevant. What I think is who has got the best resume for the job and it's between Malcolm and Bill Shorten, it's definitely Malcolm."

Wilkinson then again asked Mr Joyce whether he was impressed by Mr Turnbull.

"I find he's a good person," Mr Joyce said.

"It's a simple question, are you impressed with his Prime Ministership?" Wilkinson said.

"Does he do a better job than Tony Abbott would've done?" Wilkson asked.

"Yes," Mr Joyce said.

"If the Coalition does cling to power, will you have a more active role in government, as your members are demanding?" Wilkinson said.

"Yes," Mr Joyce said.

Wilkinson then pointed out he could expand on his answers.

Mr Joyce laughed and replied "I like these monosyllabic answers, these are great, they keep me out of trouble".

Mr Joyce also said he was confident the Coalition would be able to form majority government, as federal election votes continue to be counted.

"I truly believe, and it's not rhetoric, that we are going to have a majority," he said.

"I think that, for our own part – Capricornia and Flynn – we have postal votes to come in and we look at the trend of the postal votes, we look at how many votes we're behind, and if the trend stays consistent we make the analysis that we are going to end up in front and I think we will."

"So that basically means we are at 76, so that's the majority and that means we're the government."